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Japan hears Christmas Story Only Hearts has acquired the Japanese rights for Christmas Story (Joulutarina), the Finnish family film by Juha Wuolijoki. The deal was brokered by Xiaojuan Zhou of Delphis Films.
Filmax plans Carballo horror Spanish studio Filmax is set to make The Returned, directed by Manuel Carballo, following his success with The Possession Of Emma Evans. Based on a script by Hatem Khraiche, writer of Bunker, the horror charts the impact of a zombie virus.
Polish fest honoursNorway Polish festival Era New Horizons, which takes place in Wroclaw (July 21-31), is planning a ‘Norway Expanded’ programme with the Norwegian Film Institute and Music Export Norway. New Norwegian films will screen, as well as a retrospective of Anja Breien and a co-production forum. The event will also show Japanese erotic films, and works by Andrzej Munk, Terry Gilliam and Bruno Dumont.
Swish rocks with music doc
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Roger Shannon’s Swish Films, based in Birmingham, UK, is rep- resenting new music feature doc Made In Birmingham: Reggae Punk Bhangra, directed by Debo- rah Aston. The film, made in collaboration with the Birmingham Popular
CPH PIX plans editing focus
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB The third edition of the CPH PIX film festival for features will offer international second and third- time film-makers a chance to bring their current project to Copenhagen and work with noted Danish film editors. Film-makers at the workshop,
which will be held April 26-29, will be able to have a private ses- sion with Danish professionals. CPH PIX planned this pilot
project for 2011 to create a plat- form for knowledge-sharing and creative professional co-operation.
European Film Promotion (EFP) has elected its board of directors at its general assembly meeting during Berlin. Hungary’s Eva Vezer has been re-elected as EFP president for a second term, while Claudia Landsberger, head of EYE International in the Netherlands, remains EFP vice-president. Joining the board is ICAA marketing manager Rafael Cabrera from Spain, Ivana Ivisic of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Danish Film Institute’s Christian Juhl Lemche, Finnish Film Foundation head of feature film promotion Jaana Puskala and Austrian Film Commission managing director Martin Schweighofer. Pictured from left are Cabrera, Vezer, EFP MD Renate Rose, Lemche, Puskala, Schweighofer, Ivisic and Landsberger.
Music Archive, will feature local bands of the 1970s and 1980s including UB40, Steel Pulse, Dexys Midnight Runners and Musical Youth. Aston is also planning a music
doc about cult band Au Pairs, as well as another feature doc about The Ian Campbell Folk Group.
Meanwhile, Aston is raising
finance for feature film Paradise Bound, a contemporary drama set in Liverpool which she will pro- duce through her company, Red- Carpet Media. Sue Dunderdale will direct the coming-of-age buddy movie based on a play by Jonathan Larkin.
NEWS
Toby Roberts heads for the Border
UK film-maker Toby Roberts, whose short film Spoilt Broth screened in Berlin, is developing his first feature, a US-set road-trip movie called Four For The Border. Roberts has already penned
the first draft for the film, which he hopes to shoot next year, on an ambitious $32m-$40m (£20m-30m) budget. Four For The Border is about
a 13-year-old mixed-race girl from London, who moves to New Mexico with her mother and embarks on an adventure with two local boys and a racehorse. The UK writer/director
calls his debut feature a “nail- biting, action-adventure comedy for kids and their parents that combines the road-trip comedy of Midnight Run with resonances of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid”. Sarah Cooper
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